The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-11-17

Hon. William M. Evarts, in an in
terview in Washington a few days
ago, said, concerning the Presidency:
- doubt very much whether any
Western candidate could carry New
York, all things equal. | have no
suggestions on the subject, as [ be-
lieve in the party leaders getting to-
gether and talking over the situation.
This is no time to press individual
preferences. IL we win it must be by
all pulling together, and not permit
ting ourselves to be drawn off into
side issues.
There's a deal Of sound sense in
that little paragraph. The election
of Grover Cleveland would not have
been but for the stupidity of Repub-
licans. Some of the leading Repub-
hcan newspapers had for years abused
Mr.. Blaine, and when he was nomi-
mated these same papers went into the
campaign for his election, burdened
with a record Of insincerity. A
great many Republican leaders talk
too much, and act too indiscreetly.
But for the action of few enthusiast
tic hangers-on of the Republican par
ty, Blaine would now be President,
and New York would be as solid Re-
publican State as Ohio
Let us give this picture local ap-
plication: It will be remembered
that last Spring a puny attempt was
made to divide the Republican party
in Jackson County, and as promi-
nent feature of this scheme, two
or three Republicans took contract
of kicking the Standard out Of the
Republican party. Of course this
only amused US, and very soon con-
vinced two or three Of our young
friends that that thing was double
shotted and we'll primed. We took a
more loyal and patriotic view of mat
ters than the mere idea of personal
notoriety, and the paper threw its
effort into battle for the whole tick
ct, and for the united action, the hon
or, the glory Of the Republican party.
The result was an average majority
on the sixteen candidates on the Re-
publican ticket Of more than nine
hundred and sixty in Jackson County.
The election returns were our reward
the result was what we worked for.
Ask any intelligent Democrat what
would have been the result, with the
Standard out of the fight.
1t is one of the strange, the incom-
prehensible features of politics, that
one Of the very first things a candi-
date will do-in a great majority OF
cases at least-is to east about for
some means to work an injury to the
very men who put him in Office. This
is not so often the case in Jackson
County, but the rule works to some
extent everywhere. It was so in the
case Of Conkling. President Garfield
was led into the belief that something
ought to be done to break up the Re
publican organization in New York.
He did it-and broke up New York
as Republican State, and placed it
in the doubtful column. The lesson
Of all these experiences is that har-
monious and earnest action is all that
will win in political campaign. The
Standard fought the battle in Jackson
County on the old line-the line on
which Lincoln, and Grant, and Ben.
Wade, and Zach Chandler, and John
A. Logan, fought. The old friends
rallied with the old paper, and the
Democratic party was almost annihi-
lated, where, had the attempt to di-
vide the party been successful, the
Democrats would have elected their
entire county ticket. The reason the
party was not divided was because this
paper had more sense than the rattle
Drained young men who assailed it.
Now, let us learn by experience, to
throw aside all nonsense in the polit-
ical field, and get into better shape
for next year.